The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 99
'How is it,' said Makoma, astonished, 'that we find you thus bound and helpless?'
Who acts: hair, we · What happens: be, say, find · To what, where: hair, Makoma, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 it | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 astonished | punct |
| 10 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Makoma | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ' | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Makoma | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 bound | advmod |
| 18 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 find | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 helpless | cc |
| 20 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bound | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hair | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hair | Makoma | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | we | you | bound property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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